David Filo Net Worth (Forbes 2023) Business Income House Car

David Filo Net Worth is estimated to be over $6 billion dollars. David Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages. Filo is married to photographer and teacher Angela Buenning. They have one child and live in Palo Alto, California.

David Filo Net Worth

Net Worth	$6 billion
Assets	$1 billion
Investments	$4 billion
Loans & Liabilities	$460 million
Annual Income	$310 million

David Filo’s Business Income

Through his investment portfolio, David Filo earns over $300 million in annual income through the sale of Stocks and dividend receipts. David Filo deploys multiple strategies to compound his wealth through successful investments. David Filo deploys capital to each of these strategies in proportions that he sees fit.

David Filo House

David Filo has bought a 9,500-square-foot luxury house for a price of over $34 Million. David Filo has then renovated this house by hiring an architectural design firm and spending an additional $5 Million on this luxury home. David Filo has imported Swedish oak flooring for this property.

David Filo’s house also comes with a library room and a fireplace in the corner. According to the taste of David Filo, the house was designed with minimalistic interiors and furniture, with the principal bedroom featuring walls of glass that open directly to the backyard.

David Filo Assets Investments

David Filo assets include 10 real estate properties, 8 Cars, and 4 Luxury Yachts. David Filo’s Assets Portfolio also includes Cash Reserves of over $300 Million. David Filo also owns an investment portfolio of 10 stocks that are valued at $3 billion. A few of the stocks owned by David Filo are listed below.

• Hewlett Packard
• Visa
• PayPal
• Cognizant
• Salesforce

David Filo Net Worth, Loans and Liabilities

In order to peruse his college education, David Filo has taken a student education loan of $30,000. However, after gaining wealth through Yahoo, he has repaid this education loan in its entirety.

However, David Filo has last year taken a huge loan of $300 billion for both his business expansion needs and also to purchase a house property. This loan is currently outstanding with Bank of America and is considered while computing the net worth of David Filo.

David Filo & Yahoo

Filo earned a B.S. degree in computer engineering at Tulane University (through the Dean’s Honor Scholarship) and an M.S. degree in 1990 at Stanford University.

In February 1994, he co-created with Jerry Yang an Internet website called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”, consisting of a directory of other websites. It was renamed “Yahoo!” (an exclamation). Yahoo! became very popular, and Filo and Yang realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! started off as a web portal with a web directory providing an extensive range of products and services for various online activities. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. It is still one of the leading internet brands and, due to partnerships with telecommunications firms, is one of the most visited websites on the internet.

David Filo Biography

Real Name	David Robert Filo
Nick Name:	David Filo
Birth Place:	Wisconsin, United States
Date Of Birth/Birthday:	20 April 1966
Age/How Old:	57 years old
Height/How Tall:	In Centimetres – 175 cm In Feet and Inches – 5′ 8″
Weight:	In Kilograms – 81 Kg In Pounds – 178 lbs
Eye Colour:	Blue
Hair Colour:	light Brown
Education:	Sam Houston High School, Stanford University, Tulane University
Religion:	N/A
Nationality:	American
Zodiac Sign:	Taurus
Gender:	Male
Sexual Orientation:	Straight
Kids/Children Name:	N/A
Profession:	American businessman
Net Worth:	$6 Billion

David Filo Relationship & More

Affairs	N/A
Girlfriend	N/A
Best Friend	N/A
Spouse	Angela Buenning Filo
Divorce	N/A
Children	N/A
Parents	N/A
Siblings	N/A

Key Facts about David Filo

• David Filo is a cofounder of early web portal Yahoo, which sold its core business to Verizon for $5 billion in cash in 2016.
• Filo started the company in 1995 with Jerry Yang, a classmate at his Stanford Ph.D. program. The duo dropped out to run Yahoo.
• In 2004, Filo donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for engineering and computer science scholarships.
• Filo and his wife Angela established the Yellow Chair Foundation in 2000; it supports education, civil liberties, gender equality, and the environment.
• The most valuable part of Yahoo – its stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan – morphed into a company called Altaba. Altaba voted to liquidate in 2019.

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